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Old 07-25-2012, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Seth81 View Post
Just my two cents here...if you want to be able to dim your LED's the most effecient easiest way is to start off with a dimmable constant current driver. I am an electrical engineer (mostly control systems) and after doing tons of research I used the dimmable constant current drivers from Thomas research products.
Ill throw my vote in with this one. I am not an electrical engineer but I have done enough electrical and electronic courses to know this is the way to go.

The TR drivers are a little more money, but theres a reason for that, they aren't susceptible to inrush current like the Maxwell's are, there dimmers are built in with a few different options, and the sizes you can get them in let you use only two drivers (even for large arrays)

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